Project email in New Outlook: What AEC firms need to know
Microsoft has stopped active development on Classic Outlook for Windows and is driving every organization toward New Outlook. For AEC firms filing project email into SharePoint, file servers or ProjectWise, that switch can silently break the workflows your teams rely on, leaving filed records missing, audit trails broken and institutional knowledge locked out of reach.
This guide is for anyone in architecture, engineering or construction who depends on project email being findable and auditable, project leads, IT teams and information managers alike and explains what's changing, what it risks, and how to keep your filing workflows intact through the transition.
What you'll learn
Why the New Outlook rollout is a bigger risk for AEC firms than for typical business users, and why non-Microsoft 365 backends are most exposed
How firms like WSP, LiRo Group, Nitsch Engineering and Austin-Smith:Lord keep project correspondence searchable and auditable across their teams
The five risks a broken filing workflow creates, from dispute exposure and ISO 19650 compliance gaps to lost productivity and unmanaged IT-driven rollouts
How Ideagen Mail Manager's NOW Bridge preserves your existing filing workflow inside New Outlook, across SharePoint, file servers and ProjectWise, without asking teams to change how they work